Firstday Handout for Complex Variables  Math 361  


        Unique Number 60110  MWF  11-12  RLM 7.116


   Professor Karen Uhlenbeck   RLM 9.160  471-1172 uhlen@math.utexas.edu
   Office hours will be announced.


   Text:  Brown and Churchill, Complex Variables and Applications
              7th edition, McGraw-Hill


After this weekend, the material will be available on my web-site. You
will be able to reach it from my home page or from the address
           www.ma.utexas.edu/users/uhlen/complex.html/home.html

There will be weekly homework assignments which will be due on Friday,
starting Sept 8.  First Assignment:

page 4: 1,2,6,10 page 7 1,3,8; page 11 1,3,4,5; page 13 1,2,6,10,11,13,16
page 21 1,2,5,6,9.


There will be three in-class exams.  These are tentatively scheduled for
Sept 22, Octber 20 and November 17 (this last date is not yet firm). 

There will be a take home final.

Extra credit problems will be passed out throughout the term.  Students may
volunteer to give solutions to these in class. This is experimental, and 
I am not sure how the grades for these presentations will be taken into
account.  The problem is that this class is too large to let everybody
have many chances at presenting several solutions, but I would like to
give it a try.  If it works well, I will make arrangements for presentations
outside of class and which will affect the grades.

Grade scheme:  Best five out of 6 grades.  Homework = 1  Inclass exams = 3
Final = 2